Parents and families will be among the massive crowd in the stands this weekend for Florida State University's annual Parents' Weekend.

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Tallahassee's economy gets a booster shoot starting Friday with a few thousand parents coming through the city to join their students at Florida State University.

Friday is the first day of Florida State's annual Parents' Weekend. Mark Striffler, senior associate director for the Oglesby Student Union and chair for Parents' Weekend, said there's about 1,000 families registered for this weekend's activities. Those 1,000 families represent about 3,500 participants, he said.

"That's not to say there aren't more families visiting that aren't a part of that formal number," he said. "The ...